Airplane enthusiasts took to the skies on Saturday as the Fox Valley Aero Club offered its annual Festival of Flight public demonstration in St. Charles featuring a variety of model aircraft flown by ...

METROPOLIS, Ill. -- Metropolis is the home of Superman, and the Superman Jet Rally. The annual Superman festival is held in this Southern Illinois community each June. The 13th annual Superman Jet ...

May 1 (UPI) --James Whomsley, a British YouTube engineering channel host, has built the world's biggest remote-controlled aircraft carrier model, according to Guinness World Records. He also landed ...

There’s something to be said for a simple wind-up, free flight model airplane. With no controls, it must be built very well ...

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. — Planes are flying in once again at the William T. Piper Memorial Airport in Lock Haven, but this time they're smaller and are controlled on the ground. The planes are here for the ...

Northrop Grumman (Falls Church, Va., U.S.) has announced it will use the Model 437 aircraft built by subsidiary Scaled Composites (Mojave, Calif., U.S.) to test its Beacon autonomy ecosystem this year ...

There was once a time when Gary Baker's interest in flying radio-controlled model airplanes waned. After all, the unexpected crash of a $3,500 aircraft two years ago not only hurt his bank account, ...